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Family on July 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
When family has an unexpected health problem (like a heart attack) in the middle of the night, and you need to check on them, you may need family to help out. You can’t just leave the kids with neighbors, or call someone to watch them. Enter Uncle Buck.
Buck Russell (John Candy) is the relative that no one likes to admit they have, and he just happens to be the one who might happen to come through when you need someone the most. Sure, he’s a bit rough around the edges, but no one can make pancakes like Uncle Buck.
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Comedy on April 2nd, 2006 by Chad Everett
This is probably my least favorite movie of the series, but it’s growing on me. Probably because I’ve caught bits and pieces of it this weekend on some station or another (USA, I think), and those bits and pieces remind me of the parts of the series I like, without force-feeding me the whole thing, which reminds me why I don’t like the whole thing.
In this third go-round, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are, as you may imagine by the title, getting married. As you may also surmise, simply because you’ve been paying attention previously, things probably aren’t going to go quite as expected along the way, and you’d be right, even if you hadn’t seen a single preview of the actual movie.
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